. St. Nicholas [serial]. lace ? No, your-Majesty; I knew it not. Then know it now, and know, too, thatthou art the man. To thee, my son, I give mydaughter in marriage, together with one halfmy kingdom. No, no — not a word. She isthine. Thou deservest her. May you behappy! The prisoner, almost dumb with astonish-ment, almost dazed with joy, knelt and kissedthe princesss white hands, then looked into hereyes and said: Ah, well it is for me that I saw you notuntil now, for I should have been miserablydiscontented until you were mine ! REMEMBER—THE LITTLE MEMBER! By Henry Johnstone. You may keep y
. St. Nicholas [serial]. lace ? No, your-Majesty; I knew it not. Then know it now, and know, too, thatthou art the man. To thee, my son, I give mydaughter in marriage, together with one halfmy kingdom. No, no — not a word. She isthine. Thou deservest her. May you behappy! The prisoner, almost dumb with astonish-ment, almost dazed with joy, knelt and kissedthe princesss white hands, then looked into hereyes and said: Ah, well it is for me that I saw you notuntil now, for I should have been miserablydiscontented until you were mine ! REMEMBER—THE LITTLE MEMBER! By Henry Johnstone. You may keep your feet from slipping And your hands from evil deeds,But to guard your tongue from tripping,What unceasing care it needs!Be you old or be you young,Oh, beware,Take good careOf the tittle-tattle, telltale tongue ! You may feel inclined to quarrel With the doctrine that I preach,But the soundness of the moralSad experience will teach :Be it said or be it sungEverywhere,Oh, bewareOf the tittle-tattle, telltale tongue !. HOW WE BOUGHT LOUISIANA. By Helen Lockwood Coffin. It is a hard matter to tell just how much the Mississippi, and so save himself the troublepower a little thing has, because little things of walking over the land and cutting out his own have the habit of growing. That was the trou-ble that France and England and Spain and allthe other big nations had with America at thirteen colonies occupied so small andunimportant a strip of land that few peoplethought they would ever amount to could such insignificance ever bother oldEngland, for instance, big and powerful as she roads as he went. So when France said, No,dear, and told him to be a good little boyand not tease, the United States citizen verynaturally rebelled. Mr. Jefferson was President of the UnitedStates at that time, and he was a man whohated war of any description. He certainlydid not wish to fight with his own countrymen, was ? To Englands great loss she soon learned and he as certa
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